Im an idiot. Can’t format my paragraph spacing.
-
I’m on firefox on a macbook. I do line breaks
and it still only leaves one line, making my blog look clogged and difficult to read. If I use the <p></p> it indents the entire paragraph and leaves the font smaller. Not the look I want. I thought maybe if I could indent the first line of each new paragraph, then at least it would be easier to read since I cant seem to get more than 1 line of space without changing the entire width of the paragraph….. but I can’t find an indent code and just leaving 5 or 10 spaces… none show up ever.
I use to think I was fairly competent with basic coding.. but WordPress has me at a loss right now. :(
Thank you in advance!!
-
Just realized that when I type the code in the post… it works instead of just posts. lol I had done three different <.br.> ‘s in a row to signify that I’m trying to get 3 spaces.
-
I guess I didn’t formally “ask” a question. *sheepish grin*
So… *ahem* “How do you format the paragraphs of your blogs to have the amount of spacing needed for visual simplicity without changing the table or font size?
Thanks!
-
Please provide the URL of your blog when you ask a question here (or link your nickname to your blog as explained in the Sticky “8 Things to Know”).
For first line indentation:
<p style="text-indent:.5in;">YOUR_TEXT_HERE</p>
(you can adjust the number)For extra space between paragraphs:
<div style="height:20px;"></div>
(you can adjust the number)Simpler (non-adjustable) alternative:
<div> </div> -
Thanks panaghiotisadam.. I thought my username was enough. Sorry. phenomenality.wordpress.com
I’ll try your suggestions. I didn’t realize that you had to know code in order to do simple paragraph layout. I thought when in “visual” mode rather than “html” that just typing it out how I wanted it to look was enough.
First day on WordPress. Sorry for my naivety. :)
Happy New Year!
-
Also, when you start a post, make sure that the format pulldown on the lower row of visual editor icons says “paragraph.”
-
@phenomenality: Welcome here and happy new year to you too.
No your username is not enough, because one’s username isn’t necessarily the blog name as well. I always try that (I wouldn’t have answered if I hadn’t found your blog that way), but you understand you make it easier for us if you just give the URL. Also, some bloggers have more than one blog: sometimes a forum volunteer gives an answer that applies to a particular blog, and gets the response “oh not that blog, the other one”! And note that staff has access to your blog(s) anyway, but we’re not staff: we’re just fellow bloggers.
-
Wonders of wonders and miracles of miracles….
No idea how….. but I went back in to try and edit (for the umpteenth time) and just hit the space bar in the visual mode (like I’ve done umpteen times) and when I updated and previewed..
VOILA!
Magic.
Spaces appeared.
:D
-
You mean the return key. Yes, that will give you a single line return in the html editor, a doube one in the visual.
-
Amazing! I have often wondered why there is sometimes an apparent ‘double-space’. Now I know. Thanks.
-
I swear to you I did that soooo may times. I’m my visual it would look like 10 spaces and then when I’d save and view in preview…. none.
I don’t quite understand what the issue was/is.
I did attempt to go in and fix the next post and I’m having the same problem again. In visual mode I have a ton of space in between paragraphs and still only 1 after saving. I even added (br)(br)(br)(br) to my html code.
uno.
*shrugs*
I still don’t get it.
-
btw… that is br inside the <.> brackets. In my original post here I put them in the brackets and they disappeared. lol.
-
@phenomenality: We believe you! As you’ve found out, the wp editor won’t accept multiple line returns (hence the need for html coding if you want extra blank lines).
-
Sorry to keep prodding…. the code that I’m familiar with to make line breaks/spacing, that wont change the font or table width: ‘
‘ Is not working.The other suggestions of ‘<div>’ made the entire blog width (every paragraph) narrower and changed the font size.
Is there any other code that I’m not doing that might work?
-
*edit* I just figured out that backtick is ` and not ‘ LOL My bad. I bet I’m getting more eye-rolling this morning than anyone else. *grin*
Sorry to keep prodding…. the code that I’m familiar with to make line breaks/spacing, that wont change the font or table width:
<br /><br /><br />Is not working.The other suggestions of
<div>made the entire blog width (every paragraph) narrower and changed the font size.Is there any other code that I’m not doing that might work?
-
No problem with “prodding”! But the div codes I suggested cannot possibly do what you say, as they are no-content tabs added BETWEEN text paragraphs. The one problem in your latest post is an unclosed tag: you must change the second “blockquote” to “/blockquote”. The other is that you have introduced code for medium-size font. Have you been pasting from Word?
-
Oh dear….
I’m afraid I’ve made a HUGE mess of things by adding in the codes suggested above. I’m quite sure I didn’t put them in correctly…
Could someone look and do a “view source code” on my page and see what I did? I don’t even know how to fix it.
And when I look at it in “visual” mode…. its perfect.
-
Take a look at my first post here again. This is what you’ve pasted:
<div style="height:20px;">
This is what you should have pasted:
<div style="height:20px;"></div>
Once you add the slash-divs, things will be ok. -
-
No, the post title is unfortunate: you’re just a new blogger, with a nice sense of humor. Let me assure you that I fumbled a lot myself before I managed to sort these things out.
- The topic ‘Im an idiot. Can’t format my paragraph spacing.’ is closed to new replies.
WordPress.com Forums 